[PRCo] Re: Will wonders never cease?

[Dwight Long]

Bob

It was the same ownership but a different company with a much longer name 
which I can dig out if you wish to know it.

Dwight

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From: "robert netzlof" <wb3iqe at rocketmail.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 7:07 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Will wonders never cease?


>A few days ago I stumbled onto an online copy of a Rand-McNally map from 
>1924. It showed a couple electric lines I had never heard of nor even 
>suspected. (See map snippet which Ecartis will have tucked away somewhere 
>in the bowels of Derrick's machine.)
> I thought maybe I should look in the list archives before I asked about 
> them and son of a gun, back there in April of 1999 when this list was only 
> a couple months old Jim Holland said:
>
> "The West Side Electric Street Railway Co. used to run from Charleroi 
> westbound to Ellsworth.  The same company used to run east of Charleroi 
> across the Monongahela to Monessen and south to Arnold."
>
> Guess that answers that.
>
> Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob
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